any of various fishes that have (or can assume) a near-spherical or very stout form, esp. one of the family Tetraodontidae or Diodontidae, which…

a swell, globe, or orb-fish.

A genus of plectognathic fishes, typical of the family Tetrodontidæ, in which the jaws are divided longitudinally by a groove, giving the appearance…

= puffer, n. 6.

In full puffer fish. Any of various stout-bodied marine and freshwater globefishes, esp. of the family Tetraodontidae, which inflate themselves…

a fish that inflates itself by swallowing air, also called puffer or puff-fish (see puff, n. adj.compounds 1).

U.S. Any of several globefishes; esp. the smooth puffer, Lagocephalus laevigatus. Now rare.

(Also tambor.) A fish which makes a drumming noise, or which resembles a drum in form; as a fish of the genus Pogonias, a drum-fish; a globe-fish…

A fish that inflates itself by swallowing air; also called puffer fish at puffer, n. 6, puff-fish n. at puff, n. adj.compounds 2, or swell-fish n. at…

A puff-fish: see puff, n. adj.compounds 1.

A poisonous puffer-fish of the family Tetraodontidæ.